Dean T EurichDepartment of Public Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaBMC Infect Dis 12:135. 2012

..Few studies have been conducted in outpatients with pneumonia, and there is a paucity of data on short and long term morbidity or mortality and associated clinical correlates in this group of patients...

Controlled trial of a collaborative primary care team model for patients with diabetes and depression: rationale and design for a comprehensive evaluation

..If our intervention improves the provision of secondary prevention therapies in these patients, the clinical (and financial) implications will be enormous...

Effects of prescription adaptation by pharmacists

Michael R LawCentre for Health Services and Policy Research, School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, 201 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, CanadaBMC Health Serv Res 10:313. 2010

..This pragmatic randomised study was done to evaluate the impact of a multifaceted community-based care program aimed at optimizing evidence-based management in patients at risk for osteoporosis and fractures...

A controlled trial to increase detection and treatment of osteoporosis in older patients with a wrist fracture

Lack of association between mortality and timing of surgical fixation in elderly patients with hip fracture: results of a retrospective population-based cohort study

S R MajumdarDivision of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, and the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaMed Care 44:552-9. 2006

..Conventional wisdom suggests high-quality care for most patients with hip fractures is surgical fixation within 24 hours to reduce mortality and complications, although there is little evidence to support this standard...

Cost-effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention to improve quality of osteoporosis care after wrist fracture

..An economic analysis of the trial now demonstrates that the intervention tested "dominates" usual care: over a lifetime horizon, it reduces fracture, increases quality-adjusted life years, and saves the healthcare system money...

A cluster randomized trial to assess the impact of opinion leader endorsed evidence summaries on improving quality of prescribing for patients with chronic cardiovascular disease: rationale and design [ISRCTN26365328]

..Most quality improvement efforts for type 2 diabetes have neglected cardiovascular risk factors and are limited by a lack of information about generalizability across settings or persistence of effect over time...

Prioritization and willingness to pay for bariatric surgery: the patient perspective

..Our objective was to examine wait-listed patients' health status and perceptions regarding the consequences of prolonged wait times using a cross-sectional study design nested within a prospective cohort...

..Antiplatelet therapy is recommended as part of a strategy to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes. However, compliance with these guideline-recommended therapies appears to be less than ideal...

..Paper does not change practice, and the creation and mailing out of a practice guideline for the treatment of CAP is only the first necessary step in translating good evidence into everyday clinical practice...

..The aim of this study was to examine patient-reported outcomes in a controlled trial of a multifaceted provider-level intervention to improve quality of care for rural patients with type 2 diabetes...

..To determine the association between age and mortality in critically ill patients with pneumonia. We hypothesized that increasing age would be independently associated with both short- and long-term mortality...

How evidence-based are the recommendations in evidence-based guidelines?

Finlay A McAlisterThe Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CanadaPLoS Med 4:e250. 2007

..This study was done to evaluate the quality of the evidence (based on consideration of its internal validity, clinical relevance, and applicability) underlying therapy recommendations in evidence-based clinical practice guidelines...

Understanding the complex associations between patient-provider relationships, self-care behaviours, and health-related quality of life in type 2 diabetes: a structural equation modeling approach

Sheri L MaddiganDepartment of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CanadaQual Life Res 14:1489-500. 2005

..To assess associations between perceptions of the patient-provider relationship (PPR), BMI, and adherence to diet and exercise in a rural population with type 2 diabetes and determine how these variables relate to HRQL...

Benefits and harms of antidiabetic agents in patients with diabetes and heart failure: systematic review

..The effect of consultations generated at SPCs on the adequacy of the management of these risk factors for stroke has not been well described, and few studies have long-term follow-up...

Do evidence-based treatments provide incremental benefits to patients with congestive heart failure already receiving angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors? A secondary analysis of one-year outcomes from the Assessment of Treatment with Lisinopril and

..Subjects were prospectively followed until death or the end of 1999. Multivariate Cox proportional hazards models were used to assess differences in all-cause and cardiovascular-related mortality between cohort groups...

A systematic review of drug therapy to delay or prevent type 2 diabetes

..outline which of the strategies for translating evidence into clinical care have been shown to be ineffective, which strategies have been shown to be effective and to describe some untested approaches that hold promise...